During a S.W. moderate gale and moderate sea on the afternoon of the 7th March, the steam-trawler Annie Walker, of Dundee, stranded on the Annat Bank, and about 6 P.M. a tug went to her, but her assist- ance was declined. About 7.20 how- ever signals were made for help, and the No. 2 Life-boat Marianne Atherstone was launched, and proceeded to the trawler. Five of the crew were taken | into the boat, but the remainder, three in number, elected to stop on board hoping to save the ,trawler. The Life- j boat remained in the vicinity until 9.30 P.M., when the master and the other two men, seeing that she was full of water and the hatches had been washed away, signalled to the Life-boat to return and rescue them. This she did, and the men, eight in number, were landed in safety about 10 P.M..